Unfortunately I can’t speak to what the expectations are for specific fields in specific situations for JAV releases. StashDB is far too large for any one person to be an expert at everything, and JAV happens to be outside of my own area of expertise. I have to defer to the editors who spend much more time in that corner of the database than I do.
And since I don’t fully understand this new context — though I can tell this argument has been going on for some time — I also cannot speak to how accurately my own words are being used here. However I will say, I do not like how often editors resort to picking apart an old quote of mine, or trying to get a unilateral decision out of me, just to settle a dispute like this. It’s not sustainable, and it means the project isn’t truly self-sufficient. That’s why I always choose my words very carefully, and why I try to stress that the power in this community is meant to be bottom-up and not top-down, guidelines instead of hard rules, a “working consensus” absent an official vote, and all of my other quotes staring back at me a few posts up.
What this conversation tells me — at least what little of it I’m able to follow — is that between the “working consensus” and whatever language is already in the guidelines, it isn’t enough. That doesn’t surprise me. After all, I wrote most of the guidelines regarding JAV myself, based on my own understanding of that corner of StashDB, which I’ve already admitted doesn’t amount to much.
Now, this shouldn’t be an unusual situation either. Are the guidelines unclear? Is there no obvious consensus? The solution is simple: propose a new guideline. Except, that’s not so simple right now is it? Unfortunately we’re still stuck in limbo as we try to get those up and running on Discourse, and most of that is on me. I only have so much time and energy I can dedicate to Stash and I need to focus more on these bigger projects. But that also means I can’t afford to spend it constantly adjudicating petty squabbles spread across three separate comment threads.
In the meantime, you’ll just have to be patient. Dogma suggested earlier to build a list of outstanding questions and disputes that aren’t currently addressed by the guidelines. I believe that would be a much more constructive use of our time than rehashing the same debate over and over.